Hosted by Ash Sweeting · 🇺🇸 US · EN-AU · 80 episodes
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This is series of conversations discussing global food sustainability with guests who bring a deep understanding of the environmental and cultural challenges facing our society and creative ideas on how to address them.
Ash Sweeting hosts ASH CLOUD, a science show with 80 episodes published.
Artificial intelligence is advancing at an astonishing pace—improvements measured in five-thousand-fold increases from week to week according to AI researchers at Singularity University. Yet in agriculture, most farmers
“I’m yet to meet a grazier that doesn’t want a 5-15% feed conversation ratio improvement.” says Tom Williams, CEO of Number 8 Bio. Producers motivated by not losing 10% of their feed to the atmosphere. Enteric methane fr
The green revolution resulted in unprecedented improvements in the efficiency and productivity of food production. Recent decades of increasingly globalized free trade has further imporved efficiecies across the supply c
The journey toward sustainable beef production in the United States began before the term "sustainability" entered common usage. Today we are joined by Steve Wooten, a rancher in southeastern Colorado's shortgrass prairi
Feed efficiency remains one of the biggest gray areas and least understood aspects of livestock production. Yet understanding how much grass a cow consumes to produce a calf or a ewe to produce a lamb is critical not onl
Feed efficiency, despite its importance from both an environmental sustainability and farm profitability perspective, remains one of the biggest gray areas and least understood aspects of livestock production. Today we a
There is a huge amount we can learn from understanding the connections between soil health, food production, and human metabolic health. Over the last 50-60 years, modern agricultural systems have become increasingly rel
Currently beef cattle production faces a profitability challenge driven by rising feed costs and efficiency gaps. For cow-calf operations, particularly where producers operate on forage-based systems, the biggest variabl
Over the last century our food systems have become increasingly reliant on synthetic nitrogen. This nitrogen fertilizer is mostly made through the energy intensive haber-bosch process in centralized production plants, of
Denmark made headlines in 2024 as the first country to implement a carbon tax on livestock emissions. The country's ambitious 70% emissions reduction target by 2030 includes agricultural reductions of 55-65%. What makes
Animal Health as a Climate and Food Security Solution In this episode of the Ash Cloud podcast, we explore an often-overlooked opportunity in the fight against climate change with Dr. Nick Wheelhouse, Professor of Compar
The cost living is an increasing global challenge. Food inflation in 2023 was 13.6%, however food prices increased by up to 30% in many low income countries. Currently 60-80% of voters consider food price as a decisive f
"Sustainability means leaving the land in a better place, preparing the next generation for a turbulent future in agriculture... and it's probably also a license to produce." Robert MacKenzie and his farms on the mid nor
AgriFoodTech Venture Capital investment is down by roughly 90% from the high of 2021 with the lack of exits or creation of profitiable agtech companies resulting from the billions invested frequently taking the blame for
There is a huge amount we can learn from Brazil’s transition from being a net food importer to one of the world’s largest food exporters over the last 50 years. Since deforestation across the Amazon peaked in the mid 199
Today we are joined by Jason Rowntree from Michigan State University where he is working on systems increase the resilience and to reduce the environmental harm of our food systems. Finding the driver across rural Americ
The epigenome is essentially the control software for plants and animals that dictates when, where, and to what level different genes in the genome are expressed. Moderating the epigenome has the potential to upgrade cro
Over human history animal protein has always been a luxury food. Meat is the first thing people generally chose to buy when they rise from lower to middle income. With the current cost of living crises across the world,
Beef supply chains have been described as the most dysfunctional and least organised supply chains of everything available in the supermarket. Today we are joined by Lamar Steiger and Neil Mellers from Ranch2Retail who a
In this episode I am exploring the rapidly growing rates of obesity globally, the rapid rise in the use of GLP-1s or obesity drugs, how these are impacting our food systems, and how obesity and poverty seem to be linked.
Aidan Connolly
CEO · Agritech Capital
2 appearances on this show
Tom Williams
Consultant rheumatologist and Education Lead at the RNHRD, RUH Bath · Bay Path Regional Vocational Technical High School
1 appearance on this show
Matt Wilson
author of "The 40 Day Discipleship Journey" · Ekklesia Christian Church
1 appearance on this show
Jack Bobo
Executive Director · Food Systems Institute at the University of Nottingham
1 appearance on this show
Nick Parker
Head of Clubs and Networks · Together
1 appearance on this show
Sherri Goodman
author of Threat Multiplier: Climate, Military Leadership, and the Fight · International Military Council on Climate & Security
1 appearance on this show
Frank Mitloehner
Professor and Air Quality Specialist in Cooperative Extension, Department of Animal Science · University of California, Davis
1 appearance on this show
Karen Ross
California's Secretary of Food & Ag
1 appearance on this show
Rob Jackson
Chair of the Global Carbon Project, Senior Fellow at Stanford's Woods Institute for the Environment and Precourt Institute for Energy, Professor of earth science at Stanford University · Focus on the Family
1 appearance on this show
Ermias Kebreab
UC Davis
1 appearance on this show
Dr Terry McCosker
Dr · Resource Consulting Service (RCS)
1 appearance on this show
Allan Savory
1 appearance on this show
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